The Peace Voter Pledge is still collecting signatures in preparation for the Peace Voter 2008 Election! Get tools & resources Vote! You voted for peace. As the "war on terror" becomes more deadly, costly and counter-productive each day, a growing majority of citizens want to see a change of course in Iraq and U.S. foreign policies that better reflect American values. Peace Action's Peace Voter 2006 campaign for the midterm elections was a huge success in bringing the occupation of Iraq and other key foreign policy issues to the forefront of the electoral debate. For a summary of Peace Voter 2006 and related electoral activity, click here!               1100 Wayne Ave. Ste 1020, Silver Spring MD 20910 (301) 565-4050 www.Peace-Action.org Peace Action's Peace Voter Pledge is a part of the Voters for Peace Pledge Coalition. Peace Action is working in partnership with more than two dozen organizations to build a national bloc of peace voters that politicians cannot afford to ignore. Take the pledge today!

Welcome to the homepage of Peace Action. Click here for the Peace Action Education Fund.		BLOG for Peace! Get your daily dose of grassroots activism, opinion and more! Peace Action's Long-Range Strategic Plan: Real Security through International Cooperation and Human Rights Visit PeaceVoter.org Work for Peace! Commentary An Open Letter to President Bush signed by 26 members of Congress, 12/11/06 Anti-war movement deserves some credit by Tom Hayden (San Francisco Chronicle, 11/26/06) An Opening for Change by Kevin Martin, 11/08/06 The Peace Race (Continued) by Katrina Vanden Heuvel (The Nation, 11/03/2006) Violence in Iraq shows the need for US Withdrawal by Kevin Martin (Letter to the Editor, Christian Science Monitor, 10/27/06) Updated Iraq Survey Affirms Earlier Mortality Estimates Public Health News Center (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 10/11/06) The Shockwaves From North Korea by Kevin Martin (Letter to the Editor, New York Times, 10/11/06) Does Bush Think War with Iran Is Preordained? by Chris Hedges (Alternet, 10/10/06) It's Time to Talk to Iran by Kevin Martin and Gordon Clark (Washington Post, 9/7/06) Wrong About Everything by Tom Toles (Washington Post, 8/31/06) Moral and Intellectual Confusion by Keith Olbermann (MSNBC, 8/30/06) Can “Peace” Be a Winning Issue in Presidential Campaigns? by Lawrence Wittner (History News Network, 8/21/06) Watching Lebanon: Washington’s Interests in Israel’s War by Seymour Hersh (The New Yorker, 8/21/06) Browse the News Archive Resources Peace Action's 2005 Congressional Voting Record (.pdf) Cost of Iraq War by State The faces of 1000 Soldiers killed by George W Bush's Lies
Thank you for your overwhelming dedication to peace on November 7th at the voting booth! "An Opening for Change" A Message from Kevin Martin, Executive Director
Iraq Study Group Report: Unrealistic Plan Would Prolong War, Not End It Plan calls for "Occupation Lite" Now that the details of the Iraq Study Group report have been published and President Bush has addressed it, it’s clear that the report’s recommendations amount to a completely unrealistic plan which would actually prolong U.S. presence in Iraq - and that President Bush has little more than passing interest in it anyway. The report suggests the possibility of removing most U.S. combat troops by 2008 - conditions permitting - without understanding or acknowledging that the presence of U.S. troops is a prime cause of the insurgency and violence. “Combat troops out by 2008 sounds great,” Martin added, “but if they are only to be replaced by large numbers of U.S. special forces, rapid reaction teams, military trainers, advisors and intelligence operatives, as the plan suggests, nothing will have been gained.” “Even with its few good suggestions regarding international diplomacy and national reconciliation, this is not a plan to end the war, but rather one to turn it into a more manageable long term occupation – occupation lite, if you will.” For the Peace Action press release, including recommendations to end the war in Iraq, click here. For a detailed analysis of the Iraq Study Group plan from Institute for Policy Studies, click here. How far removed from reality is the Iraq Study Group report? Over the past year, the situation in Iraq has evolved from a foreign policy debacle into a human and geo-political catastrophe, and conditions seem to grow worse by the day. • According to the UN, October has been the most deadly month for Iraqis since the war began in March 2003 with over 3,700 estimated deaths. A Johns-Hopkins study also determined on September 29th that approximately 600,000 Iraqis had died in the war to date. • We are solemnly approaching the 3,000th military death in Iraq since March 2003, and we have now been at war in Iraq longer than we were involved in World War II. • Nonetheless, the Bush administration and Pentagon officials are considering sending 20,000 U.S. troops to Iraq early next year in addition to the 144,000 troops already stationed there. • An Iraqi government spokesman has estimated that Iraq will need $100 billion over the next five years to rebuild its "shattered infrastructure". The war in Iraq is the issue that swept the Republicans out of power in the Congress on Election Day - but it will clearly take continued pressure from the peace movement to force Congress and the President to listen to the voters' mandate for peace and end the war in Iraq. Click here to join Peace Action's Action Alert Network, and keep up to date on the latest developments and action alerts.
Will we reach out to Iran for peace? - Sign the Petition Against War in Iran Sign the “No War with Iran!” Petition! Even with the dramatic “mandate for peace” delivered by the American people in the midterm elections, a mandate which the peace movement’s committed work helped produce, it is far from clear that Mr. Bush has learned this lesson from the election, or is willing to accept it. Most recently, the Iraq Study Group has joined numerous experts in recommending that the United States create an alliance with Iran to help reconstruct war-torn Iraq. However, as we saw several weeks ago when Israel and Iran exchanged military threats, President Bush declined to condemn the threats while continuing to issue an absurd precondition for any talks with Iran. Given his rhetoric, his continued defense of the preemptive war doctrine, and the backdrop of U.S. warships cruising to the Persian Gulf and provoking a recent exchange of military “exercises” between the two nations, this President clearly still favors belligerence and destruction over diplomacy. Reports that the Bush Administration’s 2006 National Security Strategy mentions Iran as the number one threat to America’s security 16 times can only heighten our concerns. We refuse to go along with anoter calamitous war. And we need to stop this one before it starts. Help us deliver a strong message to the new Congress and the administration; sign the "No War in Iran!" petition, and pass it on to your friends and colleagues. We the people demanded peace in the last election, and we intend to make sure we get it. Sign the petition today. (Click here for a downloadable PDF version of the petition)
Choose Your Favorite Visions of Peace! Peace Action has collected outstanding works of art from school children all around the country representing their own visions of peace. Please take a few moments to look over their work, pick out your favorites and vote for the top Visions of Peace. The top 12 entries will each receive $100 and their artwork will become a special part of Peace Action's 50th Anniversary celebrations. Click here to view the artwork and cast your vote today!
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